dere

See also: derë and de re

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁‎ (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Noun

dere (plural deres)

1. (Britain dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   She did him dere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰō(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
   • c.1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere […].

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

     Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /

2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

Derived terms

• dering

Etymology 3

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

Alternative forms

• der

Pronunciation

• (AAVE, NYC) IPA^(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d̪iəɹ/
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

Adverb

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Interjection

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Noun

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Pronoun

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Anagrams

• Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːrə

Verb

dere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þér, ér, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːɾə/
• Rhymes: -eːrə

Pronoun

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	han/ham	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere	dere	deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dere (Cyrillic spelling дере)

1. third-person singular present of derati

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Slovene

Verb

dere

1. third-person singular present of dreti

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Turkish

Etymology

From Persian دره‎ (darre).

Noun

dere

1. valley

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	dere
Definite accusative	dereyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dere	dereler
Definite accusative	dereyi	dereleri
Dative	dereye	derelere
Locative	derede	derelerde
Ablative	dereden	derelerden
Genitive	derenin	derelerin
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular derem derelerim 2nd singular deren derelerin 3rd singular deresi dereleri 1st plural deremiz derelerimiz 2nd plural dereniz dereleriniz 3rd plural dereleri dereleri

References

• dere in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

Pronunciation

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛrɛ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/, /ˈdɛrɛ/

Verb

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dere	ddere	nere	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Zazaki

Etymology

From Persian دره‎ (darre).

Noun

dere ?

1. valley